Language in the Brain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521515498)

Linguistics, neurocognition, and phenomenological psychology are fundamentally different fields of research. Helmut Schnelle provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a new integrated field in which linguists can be competent in neurocognition and neuroscientists in structure linguistics. Consequently the first part of the book is a systematic introduction to the function of the form and meaning-organising brain component - with the essential core elements being perceptions, actions, attention, emotion and feeling. Their descriptions provide foundations for experiences based on semantics and pragmatics. The second part is addressed to non-linguists and presents the structural foundations of currently established linguistic frameworks. This book should be serious reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive understanding of language, in which evolution, functional organisation and hierarchies are explained by reference to brain architecture and dynamics.

Author: Helmut Schnelle
ISBN-10: 0521515491
ISBN-13: 9780521515498
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2010
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d